#toward

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible. ↗

— Robert Southey

#doing #first #first step #impossible #mind

My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#because #been #believe #change #committed

By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#attitude #changing #comeback #done #enthusiastically

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#eyes #find #fit #follow #forgive

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anti-semitism #been #desperate #economic #i

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#believe #called #i #i believe #i believe that

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#catholics #could #court #deal #diversity

We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us. ↗

— Randall Terry

#country #data #drifting #moving #place

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life. ↗

— Billy Graham

#area #attitude #every #gets #help

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#personal #personal goals #progress #steady #steady progress